Install SQL on Linux VM

One of most interesting things last year was release of MS SQL Server for Linux. Like I said in some of my posts before, I wouldn’t have dreamt of it 5-6 years ago. But things changed very much in last few years and this is another big step Microsoft took toward OpenSource community. In this post I will…

Azure Server Management tools – manage your servers in browser

I did few sessions on Azure Server Management Tools but my friend Romeo Mlinar keeps missing them. So he asked me today when will I do ‘How to’ article on SMT and here we are. Server Management Tools is great tool that helps you manage your servers remotely in a browser. Almost any browser is supported,…

Azure Basics Part 2 – Creating VM

Next step in creating Azure IaaS is adding VM to VNet we previously created. In Azure portal select ‘New’, then ‘Virtual Machines’ and then select OS you want. In this case I will select Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. Again be sure to select ‘Resource Manager’ from menu and click ‘ Create’   New tile will open…